
Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña
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Search complete. 9 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña".
Oct 23, 2026
Haywire
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12:29Phoebe JudgeHOST
44 people were injured and four people were killed.
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12:34Phoebe JudgeHOST
Shortly after the bombing, someone called the Associated Press and said they were from a group called the FALN, a Puerto Rican nationalist group.
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12:44Phoebe JudgeHOST
The caller left instructions for the police to find a message from the group in a phone booth near Francis Tavern, The note said that the bomb was in retaliation for a CIA bombing in Puerto Rico earlier that month.
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13:00Phoebe JudgeHOST
At first, investigators thought the FALN might have also been responsible for the bomb at LaGuardia.
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13:07Phoebe JudgeHOST
But there is no evidence connecting them.
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13:11Phoebe JudgeHOST
The FALN would go on to set off more than 100 bombs in New York into the 1980s.
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13:19Phoebe JudgeHOST
In the 1970s, bombings happened a lot in the United States.
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13:24Bryan BurroughGUEST
The 70s, we forget, were crowded by left-wing radical groups, many of them left over, most of them left over from the 1960s.
French Riots, Socialism In America, The Islamist Threat
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25:38JoeAUDIENCE
My dad was murdered by, uh, by terrorists, leftist terrorists of Francis Tavern 50 years ago in New York.
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25:46JoeAUDIENCE
Um, it was a, uh, it was the Marxist FALN.
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25:50JoeAUDIENCE
And then my cousin was killed on nine 11 as I was in the trade center that morning and saw that.
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25:55JoeAUDIENCE
So it happened.
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28:12JoeAUDIENCE
And then Obama gave Oscar Lopez, the only, the terrorists actually turned down the Clinton clemency, gave him a second clemency.
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28:22JoeAUDIENCE
So the connection with these people is stark.
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28:24JoeAUDIENCE
Obama was connected with the FALN and the Clintons used them for politics.
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28:31JoeAUDIENCE
You know, I can't warn people enough and we have to.
The Dominic Carter Show
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27:46JoeAUDIENCE
My dad was murdered by, uh, by terrorists, leftist terrorists of Francis Tavern 50 years ago in New York.
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27:54JoeAUDIENCE
Um, it was a, uh, it was the Marxist FALN.
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27:58JoeAUDIENCE
And then my cousin was killed on nine 11 as I was in the trade center that morning and saw that.
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28:03JoeAUDIENCE
So it happened.
268: My Dream Job: 30 Years in the NYPD: Gangs, Drugs & Counterterrorism in the Joint Terrorism Task Force
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61:35Steve MurphyHOST
Can you just tell everybody what that is?
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61:37Tom SmithGUEST
So in 1981 in New York, there were a number of terrorist attacks that were going on by a group called the FALN, and they were setting off bombs around the city, political organization.
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61:50Tom SmithGUEST
They were robbing banks, part of the Black Panther movement and all that.
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61:53Tom SmithGUEST
So the FBI decided to dedicate a task force to it named the Joint Terrorism Task Force, which encompassed the NYPD and other agencies under kind of one umbrella to address these groups that were just setting bombs off
Steve Hilton On Last Night's Debate
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16:08RonAUDIENCE
I studied it.
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16:10RonAUDIENCE
Uh, uh, it was about the worst of the Clinton pardons besides the Marc Rich pardon and the FALN terrorists.
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16:15RonAUDIENCE
It was right up there with those.
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16:17RonAUDIENCE
Okay? And, um, uh, this guy, Vignali, was com- unrepentant.